Sesame Street for forty years a fixture on television – NU.nl

Sesame Street on January 4, 1976 for the first time on Dutch television.

The formula comes from the United States, where the Sesame Street is called, a program that American children in disadvantaged areas playfully must rid their learning disabilities. The Americans pull puppet maker Jim Henson on, invent a street where puppets and humans live together, and the rest is history.

The Dutch professor of developmental psychology Dolf Kohnstamm examines the early seventies, at the request of the NIS or Sesame Street is suitable for Netherlands. Kohnstamm thinks so, but the emphasis should be more shifted to stimulate the emotional development, something that the US program less is discussed.

The Dutch creators invent more figures which they say emotionally recognizable for little children from three to six years. Werktitel some time Sesamplein .

Belevingswereld

The topics covered in the seventies free society, while Sesame Street is now more precisely target the belevingswereld of children. The decor has changed:. Of brick cottages with clock gables to a fanciful environment

In the course of time there will also be new residents at as recently the piggy Plurk, and the title song has been renewed several times .

Famous votes

The program includes Dutch films, interspersed with dubbed American cartoons and movies with the puppets of Jim Henson. Typically, the distribution is Dutch American 60:40.

The lyrics are from an extensive team writers and the songs of famous composers such as Harry Bannink and Henny Vrienten. A major role is there for the duo Bert and Ernie, which are decades voiced by comedians Paul Haenen and Wim T. Schippers

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Opafiguur

Sesame Street has long been a collaboration between the NIS and the Belgian BRT, but the latter stops it in the eighties. At that time also keeps actor Peter Hendriks, the opafiguur in the program, it quits because he is retiring. Make in that period Lex Goudsmit, Gerda Havertong, Aart Pigtails and Underwood made their appearance in the fictional street.

Every year is included in about six weeks time all the material for 120 episodes. Actor Aart Pigtails, which is now thirty years associated with the program, showed Thursday already know here feel much more like Sesame Street disappears from the regular transmitter

By: Reuters